DOGS OF RIGA/ WALLANDER

UK, 2012, 90 minutes, Colour.
Kenneth Branagh, Soren Malling.
Directed by Esther Campbell.

1. The popularity of the Wallander novels? the character of Wallander? His manner and investigations?
2. The Swedish settings, the coast, the wharves, police offices? The Riga settings, the atmosphere of Latvia, the city, a tools, police offices, cemetery? The musical score?
3. A more contained Wallander story than usual? Restricted locations in Sweden, in Riga?
4. Wallander and his work, his life, alone, age, brooding? Stimulated by a case? The finding of the bodies, the torture? The investigation identifying them? The code on their bodies? Leading back to Russia? To Latvia?
5. The investigator coming from Riga? Taciturn? Information about drugs, looking at the raft, finding the hidden drugs? The photos, his faxing them to Riga? The bond with Wallander? Wallander giving him the book? His wife’s later comment about the gift?
6. The inspector and his return to Riga? The news of his death? Torture? The search for his files? His suspecting police involvement with the gang for drugs? Wallander going to Riga? Meeting the police, the letter of the law policeman, the Russian and his disheveled look? Suspicions?
7. Wallander in Riga, hotel, his phoning being bugged? Meeting Inez? The encounter with the widow? The cemetery? Collaboration for the files? The arrest of the widow, the torture with the acid? The rogue policeman? The warning of the fisherman on the wharf, shooting?
8. Wallander returning to Sweden, then back to Riga, documents, information?
9. The rogue policeman, the gun, the standoff at the wharf, the strict policeman being the villain? Talk with the Russian policeman, his status in Latvia, under suspicion, his completing the case?
10. Wallander and the widow, the bond, his return or her coming to Sweden?
11. An interesting contribution to the series?